Peperomia caducifolia
A rarely seen Andean peperomia described by Trelease in 1936 from near Carrapa in Ayacucho, Peru, at about 3,000 m. It is a tall, creeping-then-ascending epiphytic herb with very fleshy, finely hairy stems and leaves that drop readily, which is what its name means. Almost nothing is documented beyond the type description, so treat it as a cool, humid montane epiphyte.
Where it grows wild
Described as an epiphyte of wet tropical montane forest. No field notes on host trees or microhabitat exist. At 3,000 m on the eastern Andean slopes the forest is low, mossy and fairly open, so it probably grows on mossy branches in dappled light. The very fleshy stems and easily shed leaves hint that it may cope with dry spells.
The type was collected at about 3,000 m. There are no GBIF records to check this against.
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